Word: lifting
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With 13 seconds remaining until halftime, Harvard freshman midfielder Jay Wich tied the score at 3 to give the Crimson a lift...
Herger came out and unloaded a thunderous kill to lift Harvard to a 15-14 lead. Pankau followed suit and killed the ball to give Harvard the 16-14 win in the fifth game, and the 3-2 win in the match...
...need for a partner has always been the bane of chess players. While in forced isolation in the gulag, Natan Sharansky played chess against himself in his head. It kept him sane. (It had the added benefit, he likes to note, of providing him with a lift. "I always won," he recalls cheerfully.) And Bobby Fischer has been playing chess with few people other than himself ever since he quit as world champion and practically disappeared 25 years ago. But then, Fischer has the look of a paranoid schizophrenic...
...University of Maine, telling him his mother had been hospitalized with a stroke. Since his car is on the fritz, Alan must hitchhike the 120 miles from Orono to Lewiston to see her, and some awfully spooky things happen to him along the way, including getting a lift from a dead man. (Incidentally, this is King's first work since he was struck by a car while walking near his Maine home last June...
Besides numerous speeches, the vigil included several poetry readings and musical performances by groups including Kuumba Singers, who led the gathering in a rendition of James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing...